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Appendix
2.2.5 Creating a CD/DVD/Blu-ray
Press the ‘Export DVD’ button to enter the menu called ‘Film
selection’. This menu allows you to add individual films and
burn them to disc. Press 3 to determine the destination me-
dium. The available media are: USB/Firewire, CD, DVD, Dual-
layer DVD, Blu-ray disc. You can export all kinds of formats
to these destinations (e.g. DIVX, MPEG-2, H.264, etc.). The
destination itself (optical medium) can be burned either as a
standard video DVD or in the internal export format. You can
determine the export format by entering the ‘Options’. There
are three options here: Press 1 to choose between ‘Video
DVD’, ‘Export’ and ‘Internal’.
• Video DVD
Burns a DVD that can be played in most DVD players. More
information about creating a DVD a little later.
Note: Creating a mini-DVD (often called cDVD), which stores
a DVD folder structure on a CD, is also possible. Playback of
such CDs is not supported by all DVD players. This format is
better suited for burning short films for playback on PC sys-
tems (e.g. presentations), on Home-Entertainment systems or
the Casablanca system itself.
• Internal
Is a format for storing data on optical media. This burns the
films, including additional formats (title, actors, genre, series-
album, etc.). Playback of this format is only possible on
systems that use the Media Manager software. The films can
be imported back onto the hard-drive without any conversion
on a 1:1 basis.
• Export
Offers plenty of options for exchanging data with other sys-
tems or platforms. The extensive list of devices will help you to
choose the format supported by a particular device. Supported
are: mobile phones, PDAs, video player and even special
format types for internet platforms. Press the ‘List’ switch
underneath the Export button to reveal a list of more than
Note: The system capacity already considers trashcan items
as if they were deleted already. For example, if the capacity is
shown as 97%, emptying the trashcan won’t really help.
2.2.3 Organizing video
Press the green clover button (sort) to go to the menu for or-
ganizing film items in accordance with recording time, length,
alphabetically, album (= series) alphabetically and actor alpha-
betically. These options are all based on the same data that
you have applied (or already existed) in the ‘Rename’ function
(please refer to Chapter 2.2.5 (Media manager)).
2.2.4 Video import
Press the ‘Import’ button to reach the ‘CD/DVD internal format
play/import’ menu. You can import films that have been saved
in the internal format (see chapter 2.2.7., Options) to your
Casablanca editor. Insert a CD/DVD/Blu-ray into the tray and
wait for a moment. After a short while, you will see the con-
tents of the disc. If you wish to play a film directly, select the
film and press ‘Play’.
If you instead wish to import, press the ‘Import’ button (Record
button).In the area on the left (Titles on CD/DVD), there will be
a list of the movies on the medium you have inserted. Select
a film and press OK to add it to the list on the right. Next,
press button 7 to import the selected films. Alternatively, you
can also press ‘8 Import all new films’ (this is useful to avoid
importing films twice).
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